Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conservatives, who hoped to make stock of the Russian document, did not seem to have as keen an ear for the murmur as the person at whom the protest was directed, for as soon as the applause set in they were frightened into a policy of hopeful waiting. When the applause was to die down they hoped to stir the murmur into a growl and with a late fall campaign to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Government to force an election...
Coach Stevens announced yesterday that he had made no effort as yet to boat the men into first, second, and third crews. He expects to do this later on, however, and the competition for seats in his first eight will be keen...
...scholar and critic M. Fay has won an international reputation. In the past four years he has written a number of keen articles on American ideas and American politics, which have appeared in the "Correspondant" and other French periodicals. Last winter he published a series of articles on French literature from 1880 to 1924 which have attracted wide attention. M. Fay is one of the leaders of the modern French school, and he has been in great demand as a lecturer on the modern theories of criticism...
...recent article, Frank R. Kent, the eminent, keen-minded Democrank correspondent of The Sun (Baltimore) recited the great advantage which the Republicans have over the Democrats in the present campaign...
...keen-minded Democrank...